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- 0:00Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas to the power our sixten double UTV and
- 0:02Speaker 1: the stuff we flocked to the stores for ever flocked
- 0:05Speaker 1: to the TV for, like Max herew I had to
- 0:07Speaker 1: have had to use it and it's gone now, and
- 0:11Speaker 1: you're sitting back wondering why why did we Why did
- 0:14Speaker 1: we have to have microwavable milk shame but velaments which
- 0:22Speaker 1: I liked, sugar free breath mints but gone. I'm sure
- 0:27Speaker 1: there's some of those things too that you actually fell
- 0:29Speaker 1: in love with and you you bought all the time,
- 0:31Speaker 1: and you're thinking, Okay, yeah, I'm not richly sure. I'm
- 0:35Speaker 1: not sure why I was doing that eight two one
- 0:37Speaker 1: night at eight six eight two one wtv N. It
- 0:39Speaker 1: fell on and off your radar, John, you're on six
- 0:41Speaker 1: TENU WUTVN.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Yeah, Chuck calling in about why we needed that stuff
- 0:47Speaker 2: was because it was.
- 0:48Speaker 3: The eighties and I graduated in nineteen eighty and if
- 0:54Speaker 3: we grew up in the eighties, you can't remember most
- 0:57Speaker 3: of anything back then, So.
- 1:01Speaker 2: We just did whatever was out there.
- 1:03Speaker 1: It was a grand and wonderful decade full of useless,
- 1:06Speaker 1: frivolous things and uh and an enthusiasm for life that
- 1:10Speaker 1: I wish we would see matched today.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Oh, bring it back. I remember the little Kings jumping
- 1:17Speaker 2: in the cars, iving out in the country, cop pooney over, Hey,
- 1:21Speaker 2: you got beer in the car. Yeah, let me drink
- 1:24Speaker 2: one with you or they pour it out.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Little King's cream.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Ale Yes, I have sleutely three two and six beers.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh. And remember you remember John the
- 1:36Speaker 1: Schlitz Molt Liquor Bull in the China Shop, going through
- 1:39Speaker 1: the china shop busting everything up and Billy D. Williams
- 1:42Speaker 1: being all suave and cool of that was. Those were
- 1:45Speaker 1: great commercials.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Those are you know what? Like I said, if you
- 1:51Speaker 2: remember more than two or three years of the eighties,
- 1:55Speaker 2: you didn't grow up in the ages.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it gets it gets kind of foggy after well,
- 2:00Speaker 1: I got you eight two one night at eighty six
- 2:01Speaker 1: eight two WTV. And the Bull as well as Spuds Mackenzie.
- 2:05Speaker 1: That was another thing. And what was Spuds Mackenzie was
- 2:10Speaker 1: Budweiser and Alex remember Alex, Alex was the stros dog, ok,
- 2:17Speaker 1: and he they were playing poker and he sent Alex
- 2:20Speaker 1: to the kitchen to get him a beer and he
- 2:21Speaker 1: hears the beer open. Here's the beer poor and then
- 2:24Speaker 1: he hears Alex had better be your water you're drinking
- 2:28Speaker 1: Alex was the stros dog A two y w TV.
- 2:31Speaker 1: It is by number Dipper. You're on the Legacy Retirement
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- 2:36Speaker 4: Well, I also remember when I was Bush used to
- 2:38Speaker 4: have goolicking girls on posters. But you don't have that
- 2:40Speaker 4: anymore either.
- 2:41Speaker 1: No, well that's that's that's not allowed.
- 2:43Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, well I've been driving across the country just
- 2:46Speaker 4: a truck and listen to my c W McCall and Convoy.
- 2:49Speaker 1: We got un beautiful site.
- 2:54Speaker 4: I'm still I'm still mad as Zach for his blasphemous
- 2:57Speaker 4: comments about that Beyond the Beyonce Country has tunes there
- 3:00Speaker 4: last week.
- 3:01Speaker 1: So now which one? Which one more different? Is it
- 3:04Speaker 1: Convoy or is it Teddy Bear? Which one? Which one one?
- 3:07Speaker 1: Do you turn up when it comes on?
- 3:09Speaker 4: Convoy? Obviously? I mean that was that was that was
- 3:12Speaker 4: back in the seventies.
- 3:13Speaker 1: I don't know that that Teddy Bear song was a
- 3:15Speaker 1: heart jerker man, Yeah.
- 3:17Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but I was. I think it's the Oklahoma area.
- 3:21Speaker 4: I saw they were selling arsty cola, and I'm like,
- 3:25Speaker 4: I didn't know that would I'd kind of come back.
- 3:27Speaker 4: I always thought it was gone, but I saw them.
- 3:29Speaker 4: They were selling selling art cola. And I also like
- 3:32Speaker 4: the regional drinks. I do get Zach's a La every
- 3:36Speaker 4: once in a while when I'm in Kentucky. But but
- 3:40Speaker 4: there's the one in southern Ohio.
- 3:42Speaker 1: I think it's double double cola, right, no ski? Oh yeah,
- 3:50Speaker 1: the Kentucky Headhunters exactly.
- 3:53Speaker 4: So so I used to go down to Jackson when
- 3:55Speaker 4: I used to work locally in Ohio. I used to
- 3:57Speaker 4: go to Jackson. There's a place, this whole ski down there.
- 4:00Speaker 4: I'd buy myself some ski. When I came back, saw.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Burner fries and a bottle of ski. Bring it on
- 4:05Speaker 1: around for the baby and me. Yeah.
- 4:08Speaker 4: And then the other one was I'm in an international
- 4:11Speaker 4: harvester club, and there's a there's a woman author. I'm
- 4:14Speaker 4: her first name is Sarah, but she wrote a book
- 4:16Speaker 4: on the international refrigerators. And she was given a presentation
- 4:21Speaker 4: in Nebraska and she had Wurners cream cream cream ale
- 4:25Speaker 4: with the cream pie.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Yes, and so you had people from all.
- 4:29Speaker 4: The country like, what's the burners and she sas, it's
- 4:32Speaker 4: a Mischian drink, it's a ginger ale. And I told her,
- 4:35Speaker 4: I said, there's a couple of rest stops up there
- 4:37Speaker 4: in the Iaight, Ohio Turnpike that sells burners. Would you
- 4:42Speaker 4: always give me a burner?
- 4:43Speaker 1: I like their their their ginger ale. But I'll tell
- 4:45Speaker 1: you what I missed. The Werner's cream soda that used
- 4:47Speaker 1: to be some great stuff. It was, Uh, it was
- 4:50Speaker 1: very sugary, but ooh, I liked it a two. I
- 4:54Speaker 1: w t V and Doug, you're on six ten WTV
- 4:56Speaker 1: and high.
- 4:59Speaker 5: So I'm trying to side whether or not my micro
- 5:03Speaker 5: shakes are being bad mouthed, because.
- 5:05Speaker 4: That's how I feel.
- 5:05Speaker 5: It's like one step below messing with my kids. I
- 5:10Speaker 5: literally used to eat those for dinner.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
- 5:15Speaker 5: You know it wasn't that now. If you didn't microwave it,
- 5:20Speaker 5: it was a brick and you had to scrape off
- 5:23Speaker 5: the top of it. It took you know, an hour
- 5:25Speaker 5: to be able to get a spoon in it. But yeah,
- 5:28Speaker 5: I actually thought it. It was right up there with
- 5:32Speaker 5: uh with uh what did you compare it to Wendy's?
- 5:35Speaker 6: Uh?
- 5:35Speaker 1: It was it was like a Wendy's frosty once you microwaved.
- 5:38Speaker 5: It very much, so very much, And I thought it
- 5:43Speaker 5: was right there with it.
- 5:44Speaker 1: The thing of it where we thought we were so
- 5:46Speaker 1: gullible that we thought it was some scientific advancement. It
- 5:48Speaker 1: was just flash frozen ice cream that you put in
- 5:51Speaker 1: the microwave enough to meld it to stir it.
- 5:54Speaker 5: Yeah, still tasty.
- 5:55Speaker 4: I thought it was okay. Favors.
- 5:57Speaker 5: They got vanilla, chocolate, vanilla. The vanilla wasn't something that
- 6:02Speaker 5: you know, you really wanted to eat that. That was
- 6:04Speaker 5: like plaster thought, But the chocolate was okay.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't too bad. It wasn't too bad. I
- 6:10Speaker 1: appreciate you, Doug. I gotta let you know. National Weather Service,
- 6:13Speaker 1: it's just now coming across here, issued a severe thunderstorm
- 6:16Speaker 1: warning for Champagne, Ohio, and Union beginning at six forty
- 6:21Speaker 1: three pm, so right now, ending at eight thirteen pm,
- 6:24Speaker 1: that weather's supposed to roll through. So do be careful
- 6:26Speaker 1: out there, and if you're like me, just trying to
- 6:28Speaker 1: get home before it all hits eight to one, nine,
- 6:30Speaker 1: eight eighty six, Carolyn, you are on six ten douled UTV.
- 6:34Speaker 3: Hi.
- 6:35Speaker 7: I was remembering body on tap shampoo.
- 6:37Speaker 1: Clean clean, I mean really clean, Carolyne, I miss it too.
- 6:42Speaker 1: I remember it was a it was a beer shampoo.
- 6:46Speaker 6: She mentioned that on the fish said it looked like
- 6:48Speaker 6: a beer body.
- 6:49Speaker 1: It contained beer. And the girl was taking a shower
- 6:53Speaker 1: and she goes, when I use Body on Tap, my
- 6:55Speaker 1: hair feels clean, clean, I mean really clean. Were you
- 7:01Speaker 1: a were you a kind of sewer? Body on Tap?
- 7:04Speaker 3: Well?
- 7:05Speaker 1: It was.
- 7:06Speaker 7: The advertising was great. It made you know, eight great
- 7:09Speaker 7: girls want to buy Body on top shampoo.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Yes, yes, now back in that era, Carolyn, Are are
- 7:16Speaker 1: you an eighties kid too?
- 7:18Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
- 7:19Speaker 1: When it came to your cosmetics, what was your fragrance
- 7:21Speaker 1: or a couple of fragrances of choice?
- 7:24Speaker 5: Oh?
- 7:25Speaker 7: So, musk fragrances were really popular.
- 7:29Speaker 1: And then were you were you a Cody or were
- 7:32Speaker 1: you a Cody or a Jo Vanne musk person?
- 7:36Speaker 7: And then what was the baby soft?
- 7:39Speaker 1: Baby loves baby Soft? Yes, I like that, and I
- 7:44Speaker 1: liked Avon had one that the teenage girls used to
- 7:48Speaker 1: wear called Babe. You remember that. I loved Babe. Oh
- 7:55Speaker 1: my gosh, I am not old enough to remember this
- 7:59Speaker 1: much crap we put our money into. But yeah, we
- 8:02Speaker 1: spent a lot of And as a guy, even I
- 8:04Speaker 1: had long hair, so I mean I was I was
- 8:06Speaker 1: using my v dow sessoonon my hair and uh, I
- 8:12Speaker 1: was a cody musk guy. And for some reason, the
- 8:16Speaker 1: late night commercials for candies shoes? Do you we got candies? Candies?
- 8:22Speaker 3: I want?
- 8:23Speaker 7: John wore candy shoes in the Grease movie.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Were those candies? I didn't know. I never I never
- 8:32Speaker 1: got past those black the pants, Yes, I never got
- 8:37Speaker 1: past the pants. I didn't see your feet. I'm sorry.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Carolyn, thank you very much. I appreciate
- 8:44Speaker 1: the call a two one double TV at a two one,
- 8:46Speaker 1: I bet you even you have something to remember that
- 8:49Speaker 1: puts a smile on your face. Dana, you're on six
- 8:51Speaker 1: ten DOUBLETVN I go to him and he's not there. Really,
- 9:00Speaker 1: he was just calling about better ammunition prices in the eighties. Anyway.
- 9:03Speaker 1: So you you are young, you were born in eighty one,
- 9:07Speaker 1: let's say the nineties. Is there anything from the early
- 9:10Speaker 1: nineties when you were just kind of coming into you know,
- 9:14Speaker 1: puberty years and buying your style in your hair and
- 9:18Speaker 1: picking your colognes and all that kind of stuff, anything
- 9:20Speaker 1: that you absolutely in love with.
- 9:22Speaker 6: Squeeze its crystal PEPSI.
- 9:25Speaker 1: I know crystal PEPSI was was I don't even know
- 9:28Speaker 1: why they tried that.
- 9:29Speaker 3: I loved it.
- 9:30Speaker 1: What did it taste like pepsi? Then? What was the point?
- 9:33Speaker 6: I don't know. I thought psychologically it tasted different. I don't,
- 9:38Speaker 6: I don't, I don't know.
- 9:39Speaker 1: I don't got it And we ran to McDonald's remember
- 9:42Speaker 1: the mc dlt I do remember that, which they had
- 9:45Speaker 1: the lettuce and tomatoes on one side and the hot
- 9:48Speaker 1: burger was on the other side of the thing. The
- 9:50Speaker 1: burger was never that hot, separating it. We felt like
- 9:53Speaker 1: we were conducting some super scientific experiment. It was nothing except,
- 9:57Speaker 1: you know, more styrofoam in the landfill. I got some I.
- 10:00Speaker 6: Got somebody who messaged me this, and I've never heard
- 10:02Speaker 6: of this. What pepsi am?
- 10:05Speaker 1: Pepsi am? I've not heard of that either.
- 10:08Speaker 6: It's apparently it came out in eighty nine, lasted a
- 10:11Speaker 6: few months.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Was it coffee pepsi?
- 10:14Speaker 6: No, it was you're supposed to drink it in the morning.
- 10:16Speaker 6: It had twenty eight percent more caffeine than normal.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Well, I had joke Cola for that I didn't need. Yeah,
- 10:23Speaker 1: twice the caffeine and more sugar than you've ever wanted
- 10:25Speaker 1: in a soda. Pope joke. Yes, it was wonderful. It
- 10:30Speaker 1: was wonderful. See yeah, Oh Honeycomb cereal. Do they still
- 10:35Speaker 1: make Honeycomb? I don't know. Honeycomb's big Yeah, yeah yeah.
- 10:40Speaker 6: I was a big Kicks guy. Do they make that?
- 10:42Speaker 1: I think Kicks is still around, okay? Or we are
- 10:45Speaker 1: the freakies. We are the Freaky's. This is a freaky tree.
- 10:48Speaker 1: There was a cereal called Freaki's. Hold on.
- 10:52Speaker 3: Here's what.
- 10:52Speaker 6: Colgate Kitchen, the toothpaste. They made a lasagna frozen lasagna No.
- 11:00Speaker 6: Eighteen eighty two lasted a couple of months, and
- 11:02Speaker 1: I'm surprised it made it a couple of months.